Another Tree in our 1800 room

I get so excited to set up for Christmas. Some of you prims have asked to see some more Christmas trees that I put up in every room in our home.



I put this one up in our 1800 room and if you look on the window sill I have berries and white lights with a candle and I have them all done in every room. The first year I did this we had about five neighbors come
and tell us how much they love seeing the lights in the windows and I keep them up all winter long.



I do this now very year, and still get compliments.
I hope you all enjoy this tree and the BIG Christmas tree we are putting up this Saturday, with the homemade
prim stockings I made for the mantle!!!!!!!!!!

Until till next time prims
God Bless friend,
Tricia

Christmas Time!!

   There are a few things I would love to share with my Prims!
 
      Christmas is the time of year that we celebrate our Lord's Birthday on this
sweet day.
       We have a tradition here at Hillcrest Home, when we wake up the boys run
down stairs and come in our bedroom and hop in bed with us and we all hold
hands and  we all pray, then we all sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. I know that our
sons will keep this tradition when they have families of their own.
      I do believe that families need to have traditions in their families. We have been
doing this since the boys were born.
      Then Honey goes and puts Christmas music on and lights the Christmas tree and
lights all the candles and puts logs on the fireplace, then comes and gets us and we then all go
into the livingroom.
      Even though our sons are 17 and 14 when they open their gifts, my Honey and I
love to see their faces light up like a Christmas tree and the big smile on their faces,
just seeing that is such a great gift to my Honey and I.
      That is the best gift of all, to see my family around the tree smiling and laughing!!!!

   I have a picture that I would love to share with you!!
   I hope you enjoy it. It is a tree that is in my kitchen. I put up a tree in
every room.




                                  Christmas to my family is:

 Christmas smells like bayberries and pine tree our favorite

 Logs burning in the fireplace

 Smelling the turkey and dressing cooking in the oven

 Christmas tastes like crisp apple pies and great eggnog

 Homemade cookies and hot chocolate

 Mistletoe in the doorway

 Presents under the big beautiful Christmas tree

 Hearing Christmas music throughout the house and seeing the snow outside

 Hearing the laughter of our sons enjoying their gifts

 And we should remember it all began in the Manger!!!!!!!!!

 God Bless my Prim Friends,
 Tricia
 

Giveaway, Come on Prims

Hi, my prims, I only got two comments on the post
about your Thanksgiving tradition, and to comment if
you want to be entered in the Christmas giveaway.
If you just want to leave a comment about Thanksgiving
do that, you DON'T have to enter into the giveaway!!!

I just love to hear what all your prims do on Thanksgiving!
So, come on girls start typing!!!!
Till next time prims,
God Bless
Tricia
Hillcrest Home

This post is in Honor of my sweet mother-in -law

Tomorrow will be Nov. 5th, it will be a year that we lost my MIL, right off I want ot let you Prims know that my mother-in-law was a true mother to me in every sense of the word. I took care of her for almost the last 3 years. We miss her dearly. Taking care of her was a great joy to me. We got every close and had ALOT of great times and laughs and some tear along the way!
We want to celebrate her life and tell you a few things about her. She was a school teacher in Sherborn and then retired, loved to read books. She was an avid reader. She also loved to watch movies and politics on T.V. If you got in a debate with her except to lose she was very strong in her opinon.
I call her Mom so you prims know that, Mom also loved her computer, and was always on me to try the computer, I know she is looking down and is saying I told you so, it is easy, but I think the most things she loved was her wonderful son Ken that I am married for 20 years to and her wonderful grandsons, Steven and Matthew, which are our sons that she was so, so proud of.
They loved to go and be with their Nonnie, and I will tell you Nonnie really enjoyed having them.
I learned alot from her about her parents and about history any war or any President she knew it all . Mom was an open book. That can't shock you to much remember she was a school teacher. Once a teacher always a teacher.
Her favorite holiday was Christmas and you guessed it that is also our favorite holiday!!!!!

She told Ken and I when she is ready to go home with the Lord and see her parents that she will be on our shoulders watching out for us
I believe she is, for sure.
We know when it is our time to leave Mom,(Nonnie) will be at the stairs to heaven to bring us home!!
She was an amazing, strong woman and will be greatly missed by all including Ken's Dad, my father-in-law.
So Mom we honor you for your strentgh and courage and be so strong willed.
 Love your son Ken, Tricia and your two grandsons Steven and Matthew

Sunday Nov.1st is Here

Hi my Prims,

I have been busy since my last post. So, it is time to check in with all of you.

Today is Nov.1st that means you guessed it; it is time for Thanksgiving this month.

Our family really enjoys Thanksgiving. We have alot to be thankful for and alot of giving to do.

I think about the Pilgrims landing here in Plymouth, Mass. and the Indians were so kind hearted to share their Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and show them how to make a big feast and then invited the Pilgrims to come and sit around the table and eat together. What a beautiful day that must have been!!!

What we do at Hillcrest Home is bake pies the night before, apple and pumpkin. Then when we wake up in the morning, you guessed it we ALL watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on T.V. While we are watching the parade we have cheese, crackers, dips spreads, and a bowl of nuts that you have to crack open and we enjoy watching the parade and even at my age I still to this day get excited to see Santa at the end of the parade,LOL.

So, with the big turkey cooking and smelling the whole house, and the fireplace going, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, but right here at Hillcrest Home with my family!

Then we sit at the table and every year, everyone has to say what they are thankful for, and as I look around every year and see my sons growing up before my eyes and the loving, wonderful husband I am married to, I get tears in my eyes because that is what I am thankful for EVERY YEAR, MY FAMILY!!!!

So, I would love to know what you Prims do on Thanksgiving Day. I would love if you leave me a comment about what you do on my blog and put down that you would like to be in my giveaway, my 1st giveaway, nothing big, but it will be for Christmas. If I didn’t already tell you, Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday!!! Okay get typing my prims and don't forget put in your comment that you want to be entered into the giveaway.

I will announce the winner Nov.16th.

Till next time Prims

God Bless,

Tricia

Our trip to the Yankee candle headquarters

My honey and I decided to take a trip to see the foliage on the way to the Yankee Candle Factory in Deerfield, MA.  The colors were breathtaking.  I sure did enjoy the ride with my honey and the stops along the way to see the foliage and views.



When we arrived, I started to get all excited when I saw the factory with the sunny blue sky hitting those beautiful mums, a slight breeze and a few leaves falling, I knew it was fall.  Then my honey and I got out of the car and as always held hands.



Deerfield MA is a quaint town nestled in the hills close to the Berkshires in western Ma.  It has all the character of a small New England Village, and when you drive through it, the feeling of prim is everywhere.



I took a picture of my honey inside the Yankee shop that sells Chrismas villages and all of the sudden it began to snow inside the building, and I saw that sign and had my honey pose next to it.  Of course, being the gentleman that he is he posed for me, he is a real trooper.



Here is a picture of one of the many beautiful villages that we saw there. Why we love to look at the villages is because we have our own village that we set up before Thanksgiving. We truly enjoy setting up for Christmas at Hillcrest home, early every year.



I don't like getting my picture taken, lol, but i figured to show you prims, that I was there doing plenty of shopping that I love to do with my honey.  We got our tarts, and our favorite one that we get every year is the Balsam Fir.  It makes the hole house smell like Christmas time, our favorite time of the year.



O.K. girls, last picture of me with you guessed it, Santa.  I just fell in love with him because he is so Prim.

There were so many things to see that I could not possibly post them all on this blog today. My Honey and I had a quick bite to eat and then we hit the road for Hopkinton, MA.  It was a beautiful drive home,anytime I am with my Honey is a special time.
 I don't care where we go as long as I am with him!!!!!
Till next time Prims
God Bless
Tricia
Hillcrest Home

October in Hopkinton

This is a picure of our living room, I really enjoy the fall time.
Seeing the leaves change color and going for a long drive with
my Honey to see the colors change on the trees.

Also, I love the crisp air when you go outside and then I want
to bake and cook, which I love to do.
I bake pumpkin pies, apple pies and blueberry pies. I love the smell of
fall time when I am baking those pies and then making comfort
food for my family is a gift that I am able to give to them.

The picture you see is of our mantle with the woodstove which is
another thing I love about fall. My Honey has already used it and up put up the screen
and just seeing that first fire of the year is so exciting!!!!!

But I have to say that Christmas is my FAVORITE time of year. I will
talk more about that later.

There will be fun things on my blog, I will be doing more than a few giveaways
before Christmas, what a treat that will be,but for now thank
you so much for stopping in and visiting me at Hillcresthome Prims.
God Bless
Tricia